{"id":2376627,"date":"2026-04-16T21:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2376627"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:06:14","slug":"the-mummy-review-gross-horror-flick-is-just-the-exorcist-with-gauze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-mummy-review-gross-horror-flick-is-just-the-exorcist-with-gauze\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Mummy&#8217; review: Gross horror flick is just &#8216;The Exorcist&#8217; with gauze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fnewspress-collage-w1aaq7d3o-1776365017297.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261776350674\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title subsection-heading-semi\">\n\t\t\tLEE CRONIN&#8217;S THE MUMMY\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rating\">\n<div class=\"rating__stars\">\n<div class=\"rating__star rating__star--filled\"><?php \/**\n * Review star.\n * \n * @package nyp-editor\n *\/\n\n??><\/p>\n<style><![CDATA[\n\t.review-block-star {\n\t\t--review-block-star--empty-color: #585858;\n\t\t--review-block-star--fill-color: #000;\n\t}\n]]><\/style>\n<p><svg class=\"icon-star review-block-star\" stroke=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\" fill=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\" stroke-width=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" height=\"13px\" width=\"13px\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<lineargradient id=\"half-gradient\">\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"50%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"0%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\"\/>\n\t\t<\/lineargradient>\n\t<\/defs>\n\t<path d=\"M3.612 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Rated R (gore, brief drug use, language, strong violent content). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I never thought I\u2019d miss the Scorpion King.<\/p>\n<p>But as gallons of oily vomit spewed and bloody skin got gruesomely peeled off a girl\u2019s leg in \u201cLee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy,\u201d The Rock\u2019s rocky acting debut in \u201cThe Mummy Returns\u201d looked mighty appealing in retrospect.<\/p>\n<p>Come back to me, Dwayne!<\/p>\n<p>I know what you\u2019re thinking: Who the hell is Lee Cronin? He\u2019s the director of \u201cEvil Dead Rise,\u201d and purportedly his name has been tacked onto the title of his diabolically long and determinedly uninteresting new film, Wes Craven style, to separate his Egyptian monster from that of the surprisingly enduring Brendan Fraser series.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s different, all right.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>For instance, in 1999\u2019s \u201cThe Mummy,\u201d I\u2019m pretty sure there was not a scene in which a demonic child feasts on the flesh of a dead old woman\u2019s body while formaldehyde dribbles out onto the floor.<\/p>\n<p>I also don\u2019t recall any characters brutally receiving an accidental tracheotomy or being forced to watch a stomach-churning toenail-clipping sequence.<\/p>\n<p>Do these stylistic and narrative departures constitute a smart shakeup of the old mummy formula, as Cronin\u2019s movie promises to do? Eh, not really. The director mostly reshapes what a mummy actually is to suit his lackluster whims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A couple\u2019s little girl is inhbited by an evil spirit in \u201cThe Mummy.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The title creature, which is instead possessed by an evil spirit rather than eternally cursed, bears a much closer resemblance to Regan from \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d than angry old Imhotep. Even having the action commence in the Middle East only to leap to a spooky American house is conspicuously similar to the plot of William Friedkin\u2019s classic.<\/p>\n<p>If only it aspired to the same quality.<\/p>\n<p>The chilling beginning of \u201cThe Mummy\u201d has misleading promise. The little daughter (Natalie Grace) of a Cairo-based American journalist named Charlie (Jack Reynor) is kidnapped by a witchy woman through a hole in their garden gate. He frantically searches during a sandstorm, but he never finds her. It\u2019s a parent\u2019s worst nightmare.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Katie comes home to New Mexico from Egypt after mysteriously disappearing for eight years. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eight years later, Charlie\u2019s back home in Albuquerque with his wife Larissa (Laia Costa) and their other two kids, when the family learns the missing sibling has been miraculously found alive. But there\u2019s a catch. Katie\u2019s not a sweet little angel anymore \u2014 she\u2019s a corpse-like creepzilla prone to violent outbursts that would make Father Karras come racing over with his crucifix.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelmed parents somehow manage to get this disgusting freak back from Egypt on a plane by simply administering a sedative. Easy!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of Cronin\u2019s storytelling conveniences that doesn\u2019t make a lick of sense. The supernatural entity inhabiting Katie could keep her body alive for nearly a decade in a sarcophagus without food or water, but propofol still works like a charm?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ver\u00f3nica Falc\u00f3n plays a funny grandma. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In New Mexico, guilt-ridden Larissa is blinded to the obvious fact that her daughter is Satan\u2019s second cousin. And Katie\u2019s abuela Carmen (Ver\u00f3nica Falc\u00f3n) gets some \u201cWTF?!\u201d laughs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then commences an interminable stretch in which can-do Charlie works to get to the bottom of what happened to Katie with the help of a Cairo investigator (May Calamawy). But we already know what happened. The movie is called \u201cThe Mummy.\u201d She\u2019s a mummy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The titular terror\u2019s repetitive and nauseating pastimes include scurrying around like a centipede, banging on the walls a bunch and grossing out critics. Unfortunately Katie is at her scariest on the movie\u2019s poster. Onscreen, she never rises above weird. And all the body-horror yuckiness is similar to \u201cEvil Dead Rise\u201d only way less fun and more than half an hour longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Most of the movie is devoted to her dad trying to figure out what happened to Katie with the help of a Cairo investigator. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film goes on and on and on. The Great Pyramid took less time to build. You start to feel like you\u2019re the one who\u2019s been trapped inside a sarcophagus for eight years. The explanation for what the identity of this nefarious presence is dumb. And by the time we reach the climax, a routine series of tortures, we\u2019ve already long been desensitized to the gore.<\/p>\n<p>More than once, I thought: This would end a lot sooner if Brendan Fraser could just heroically swing in on a rope.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review LEE CRONIN&#8217;S THE MUMMY Running time: 133 minutes. Rated R (gore, brief drug use, language, strong violent content). In theaters. I never thought I\u2019d miss the Scorpion King. But as gallons of oily vomit spewed and bloody skin got gruesomely peeled off a girl\u2019s leg in \u201cLee Cronin\u2019s The Mummy,\u201d The Rock\u2019s rocky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2376628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,304995,21912],"class_list":["post-2376627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-movie-reviews","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Mummy-review-Gross-horror-flick-is-just-The-Exorcist.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376629,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376627\/revisions\/2376629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}